Tuesday, April 4, 2017

By NYN Daily

TOP NEWS:

* An Upper West Side woman is at the center of a scandal involving her relationship with the outgoing head of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Post reports.

* Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget extender includes an agreement that will provide New York’s 120,000 direct care professionals with a 6.5 percent raise over the next two years, according to Cuomo’s office.

* The Chronicle of Philanthropy lists some celebrities who have produced big results for charity but aren’t as widely recognized for their giving.

* A recent study suggests that arts funding should be targeted to lower-income neighborhoods with fewer cultural assets as well as those with a density of cultural resources that exceed what economics would lead us to expect, Kerry McCarthy, who directs arts and historic preservation programs for The New York Community Trust, writes in City Limits.

* Monroe County legislators have called for a formal legislative review of county Child Protective Services, after a state Report revealed Monroe County's Child Protective function to be lacking in resources and results, RochesterFirst.com writes.

* Facebook and Mozilla are among the companies and organizations launching a nonprofit, called the News Integrity Initiative, to promote news literacy and increase trust in journalism, the Associated Press writes.

* If the city’s homelessness crisis is already complicated, former service members’ housing challenges have unique dimensions of both complexity and potential solutions, which stakeholders attempted to unpack at a recent forum, Gotham Gazette writes.

* Not-for-profits say City Hall has strengthened a reliance on the for-profit sector for affordable housing, a focus that fails to recognize the value that not-for-profits bring to a housing deal or acknowledge the unique obstacles those firms face competing against for-profit companies, City Limits writes.

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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION:

* The website CarsonWatch, the brainchild of a nonprofit law firm and advocacy organization, aims to track how Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson’s public assurances and private appearances match up with the Trump administration’s promise to cut HUD’s budget by 6 billion dollars, CityLab writes.

* President Donald Trump, who promised to work for free, donated his salary for the first quarter of the year to the National Park Service, which, like other government agencies, faces major cuts in the president’s first budget proposal, according to the New York Times.

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NYN BUZZ:

* Laura Walker, president and CEO of New York Public Radio, has been elected to The Commonwealth Fund’s Board of Directors, effective April. Under Walker’s leadership, New York Public Radio’s audience has grown from 1 million to 23.9 million monthly, and more than $100 million has been raised for long-term investment. New York Public Radio owns and operates eight public radio stations, including WNYC, the most-listened-to public radio station in the country, and WQXR, New York’s classical music station. In 2008 Walker received the Edgar R. Murrow award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the industry’s highest honor. She also received a Peabody Award for Broadcast Excellence during her tenure as a producer at NPR. Earlier in her career she worked at Carnegie Hall, the Sesame Workshop, the Boston Consulting Group, and Eurasia Press, as well as in print journalism.

* After more than 40 years leading the way in aging services in New York City, The Carter Burden Center for the Aging today unveiled its new name and brand as the Carter Burden Network. The new identity reflects the breadth and depth of the organization and its growth from a single center to a network of programs and locations in Manhattan that serves more than 5,000 older New Yorkers every year. CBN’s broad array of programs and services nourish the mind, body and spirit providing important opportunities for seniors to form connections that enrich their lives while also offering vital resources that support independence. The Carter Burden Center for the Aging was established by New York City Council Member Carter Burden in 1971. Today, CBN is an agency with 13 programs in eight locations and more than 80 employees, serving 5,000 NYC seniors every year across the borough of Manhattan.

GRANTS AND FUNDING:

* Through its Service Grants program, the Taproot Foundation connects nonprofit organizations with professional consultants on a pro bono basis. Each service grant has a minimum value of 45,000 dollars and is delivered by a team of five to six business professionals who donate their time and expertise to nonprofit organizations in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Washington, D.C. To qualify for a grant, applicants must be a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization or a public school and work within one of the foundation's program areas (i.e., the arts, education, the environment, health, and social services). To be eligible for a grant, organizations also must have at least three full-time employees and an annual budget of at least $350,000. See the Taproot Foundation website for complete program guidelines and application instructions

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POLITICAL BULLETIN BY CITY & STATE:

* With a full budget still out of reach, the state Legislature passed a pair of emergency spending bills to permit the state government to continue to function, and to buy lawmakers more time to resolve several contested policy issues, The New York Times writes.

* The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board approved a $477 million contract to close the L train tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan for 15 months beginning April 2019 to repair damage caused by Superstorm Sandy, instead of 18 months as originally planned, the Times reports.

* The nation’s largest health care union, Service Employees International Union, spent $19 million last year in its national campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour that saw success in New York, the New York Post reports.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

April 6 -- At the Brooke W. Mahoney Award Reception, celebrate with leaders in nonprofit board governance and colleagues from the business, foundation and nonprofit communities.

* Front Line Heroes display excellence in their commitment to serving those in need. Every year, NYN Media recognizes people from the nonprofit industry who work in the field directly helping clients and making their organizations' goals a reality through hard work and dedication. Click here to see this year’s honorees. To RSVP for the April 18 event, click here.

On June 15, NYN Media will host its third annual Nonprofit OpCon. This event focuses on streamlining processes and operations for nonprofits in New York. How do we make things easier and more pleasant for executive leadership, operations, IT, risk, finance, HR and more? There are new industry standards to consider, and new guidelines around applying for public funds to learn. Bring your organization into the 21st century and abandon old practices that are depleting your valuable resources. It’s a new day in the nonprofit industry; join us as we explore these insights and strategies. Click here to learn more.

12:30 p.m. – The New York City Council Committee on Youth Services holds a public meeting on establishing a task force on disconnected youth, 250 Broadway, 16th floor committee room, Manhattan.

1 p.m. – New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito speaks at the East Harlem Action Center launch with New York City Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Mary Bassett, East Harlem Neighborhood Action Center, 158 E. 115th St., Manhattan.

5 p.m. and 6 p.m. – “MetroFocus” features New York City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer on the Rally to Save the Arts, WLIW21 (5 p.m.) and WNET Thirteen (6 p.m.)